Notes from the field — infrastructure war stories, homelab experiments, and things I learned the hard way.
Getting NVIDIA RTX passthrough working on a Minisforum MS-01 wasn't plug-and-play. Here's every BIOS setting, kernel parameter, and gotcha I hit along the way.
Our CloudTrail logs just stopped showing up in Splunk. No errors, no alerts. The root cause was a one-character S3 prefix mismatch that broke SNS notifications.
Static IAM keys in CI/CD pipelines are a liability. Here's how I migrated our GitLab runners to OIDC federation — and why it's worth the effort.
A collection of Python scripts I use daily — from EC2 inventory snapshots to Splunk forwarder health checks. Nothing fancy, just reliable.
I run my own AI inference stack on a single GPU. Here's a real cost comparison against API pricing, plus the intangibles you can't put a dollar amount on.